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63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. [1]633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville. [2]1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many.
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Business and economy American bank Citigroup announces plans to cut 11,000 jobs worldwide. (AP) The European Commission fines Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI, Panasonic, Toshiba and Technicolor a total of €1.47 bn for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes. (The Economic Times) Disasters and accidents Rescue crews head to areas of the Philippines severely affected by Typhoon Bopha. At ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops and tanks enter Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Displaced families in the region are heading further south to Rafah, a town on the Egyptian border.
December 1: Rosa Parks, with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 December 14: Tappan Zee Bridge. December 1 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. December 5 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the AFL–CIO.
Law and crime Former Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity. (Reuters India) Julian Assange is allowed a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against his extradition to Sweden to answer questions over sexual assault allegations. (Wall Street Journal) Politics and elections Russian ...
December 7. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title "The History of Systems of Thought". His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucault's influence extends across the humanities and social sciences, and across many applied and ...
Gemini 7, the fourth crewed mission of the Gemini program, was launched into orbit from complex 19 at Cape Kennedy at 1:30 in the afternoon. [20] [21] The primary objectives of the mission, flown by command pilot Astronaut Frank Borman and pilot Astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr., were demonstrating crewed orbital flight for approximately 14 days and evaluating the physiological effects of a long ...